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Molly Badham RIP
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:07 pm
by Ace
Not a drummer, but the founder of Tywcross Zoo that has the best breeding programme for primates died at 93. Great lady, engaging company......you'll not recognise her name, but you'll remember her chimps from the PG Tips adverts.
Twycross Zoo is 5 mins from me, a brilliant place I love to go to regularly. Their conservation programmes are top drawer
Re: Molly Badham RIP
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:08 pm
by Trumpton
Another one Steve56 missed.
Re: Molly Badham RIP
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:10 pm
by Ace
I think he's waiting for a 'biggie'......I have HRH Duke of Edinburgh on my Dead Pool this year...........maybe Mr56 might have a scoop for us
Re: Molly Badham RIP
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:15 pm
by Trumpton
Ace wrote:
> I have HRH Duke of
> Edinburgh on my Dead Pool this year
You could be right. I saw a pic of him the other day and he look really old, almost at deaths door.
Re: Molly Badham RIP
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:50 am
by steve56
Sure he shagged Diana.
Re: Molly Badham RIP
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:35 am
by Steve R
I've got Britney Spears down for a December suicide, with a separate bet for December 24th specifically.
Re: Molly Badham RIP
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:55 am
by Steve R
Monkey business?
Re: Molly Badham RIP
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:26 am
by Guilbert
>An Animal Prison would be a more apt description.
Many "zoos" are moving away from the idea of just caging animals. Most of them now see themselves as conservation centres.
Unfortunately due to man's greed and stupidity we are gradually destroying many of the natural habitats of some animals and birds.
Without "zoos" many animals would already be extinct.
There will proably be no tigers in the wild by the end of this century. Do you suggest we let them die out rather than put them in zoos and help them breed?
The Hawaiin Goose (the nene), a very shy bird, was almost extinct in Hawaii when Sir Peter Scott went there. He brought some back to Slimbridge in England, bred them there, and then took them back to Hawaii to breed naturally.
Should he have left them there to die out?
There are hundreds of example like this, breeding programs in "zoos" to keep certain breeds alive that would otherwise have died out.
Molly Badham has done more for monkey conservation in this country that almost any woman, she did not open the "zoo" to make a huge profit.
While nowadays the PG tips advert is seen as rather crass, there is not doubt Molly did a huge amount to help monkeys and apes.
Go to Gerald Durrells "zoo" on Jersey to see what can be done. EVERY animal there is in danger of extinction and they do all they can to breed the animals and return them to the wild.